What is the type of fossil that is of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself?
What is a trace fossil?
100
What are rocks composed of?
What are minerals?
100
What causes the movement of the tectonic plates?
What is magma below that surface that is circulating?
100
What is the crust of the Earth made of?
What are rocks and minerals?
100
What is this image of Earth called?
What is Pangea?
200
What is the type of fossil that is stone imprints, molds, or casts left behind of actual organisms that were once living?
What is a body fossil?
200
What are the layers of the Earth from the deepest layer to the most outer layer?
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
200
What is weathering?
What is breaking down of rock by wind, water, or rain?
200
What are the different properties of rocks that are used to classify them?
What are texture, luster, and color?
200
What is the type of rock that is formed by heat and pressure?
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Which layer of rock and soil contains the oldest fossils?
What is the deepest layer?
300
What was the before picture of the Grand Canyon?
What is a flat land with a river flowing through it.
300
What is erosion?
What is the carrying away of broken down rock?
300
Which type of rock is formed when rising magma cools and hardens?
What is igneous rock?
300
What is the theory that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core called?
What is continental drift?
400
How did the surface of the Earth change overtime by looking at the fossils in the image?
What is changing from a water ecosystem to one that is only land since there are no fish fossils found?
400
What are the three types of plate movements?
What is divergent, convergent, transformative
400
What causes land formation to change?
What is weathering and erosion?
400
What is the rock cycle?
What is the system that helps to break down and build up rocks for the creation of landforms?
What is igneous rocks, weathering/erosion, sedimentary rock, melting, metamorphic rock, cooling, igneous rock?
400
Volcanoes develop near this in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
What are transformational plates and what is the effect on the surface of the Earth?
What is plates that rub together and the effect is shaking on the surface of the Earth or earthquakes?
500
What are divergent plates and what is the effect on the surface of the Earth?
What is plates pulling apart and the effect is a gap in the Earth, like a valley?
500
What is deposition?
What is a process when broken rock is carried to a different location?
500
What are convergent plates and what are the effect on the surface of the Earth?
What is plates pushing together and the effect is mountains?
500
What is glaciation?
What is the process of glaciers picking up parts of land and wearing away mountains over millions of years?